Anne V. Coates(1925-2018)

Editor
Editorial Department
Producer

After harrowing experiences as a nurse at Sir Archibald McIndoe's pioneering plastic surgery hospital in East Grinstead, Anne Coates started to fulfil her long-held ambition to be a film director with a company called Religious Films. The work consisted of patching up prints of devotional shorts before sending them out to Britain's churches. This led to a job in the cutting room at Pinewood, where she worked on "The Red Shoes" among others before achieving her first screen credit with "The Pickwick Papers".

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Won 1 Oscar
- 7 wins & 15 nominations total

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Known for

In the Line of Fire

7.2

Editor

1993

Lawrence of Arabia

8.3

Editor

1962

Out of Sight

7.0

Editor

1998

Murder on the Orient Express

7.2

Editor

1974

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Editor

Fifty Shades of Grey
4.2
- Editor
- 2015
Extraordinary Measures
6.4
- Editor
- 2010
The Golden Compass
6.1
- Editor
- 2007
Catch and Release
5.9
- Editor (edited by)
- 2006
Taking Lives
6.2
- Editor
- 2004
Unfaithful
6.7
- Editor
- 2002
Sweet November
6.7
- Editor
- 2001
Erin Brockovich
7.5
- Editor (edited by)
- 2000
Passion of Mind
5.5
- Editor
- 2000
Out of Sight
7.0
- Editor
- 1998
Out to Sea
6.1
- Editor
- 1997
Striptease
4.6
- Editor (edited by)
- 1996
Congo
5.3
- Editor (edited by)
- 1995
Pontiac Moon
5.6
- Editor
- 1994
In the Line of Fire
7.2
- film editor
- 1993

Editorial Department

Exodus to Shanghai
6.0
- supervising editor
- 2015
Fail Safe
7.4
TV Movie
- editorial consultant
- 2000
Ragtime
7.3
- film editor: UK
- 1981
The Bushido Blade
5.3
- editorial supervisor
- 1981
The Medusa Touch
6.9
- supervising editor
- 1978
Lawrence of Arabia
8.3
- editorial consultant: 1989 restoration
- 1962
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
6.5
- assembly cutter (uncredited)
- 1952
The Rocking Horse Winner
7.2
- assistant editor (uncredited)
- 1949
The Amazing Mr. Beecham
6.1
- assistant editor (uncredited)
- 1949
The History of Mr. Polly
6.7
- assistant editor (uncredited)
- 1949
The Red Shoes
8.1
- second editor (uncredited)
- 1948
The End of the River
5.8
- second editor (uncredited)
- 1947

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Alternative names
- Anne Coates
Born
- December 12, 1925
- Reigate, Surrey, England, UK
Died
- May 8, 2018
- Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA(undisclosed)
Spouse
- Douglas Hickox1958 - ? (divorced, 3 children)
Children
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Trivia
She was awarded the O.B.E. (Officer of the British Empire) in the 2003 Queen's New Year's Eve Honours List for her services to film editing in the USA.

Quotes
When I first came into the industry in England, there were quite a lot of women editors. And then slowly they fell by the wayside......When I left in 1986, I think there was only one other woman doing big features in England. But I was taught, or I must have heard it somewhere, that as it became a more important job, men started to get in on it. While it was just a background job, they let the women do it. But when people realized how interesting and creative editing could be, then the men elbowed the women out of the way and kind of took over.